One of the things he loves about America is that first responders didn't require ID from a man in a wheel chair before rescuing him. Take that, Sweden!

ParacelsusI hope he stays visible, Republican, and mouthy right through November.

StophelesMy God, he mentions September 11th and Oliver North and Iraq as a preamble to his definition of "legitimate rape."

Two things:

1 - his almost-immediate backpedal (http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/akin-on-legitimate-ra pe-comment-i-misspoke) is that he "misspoke" but he says nothing that could be read as an apology for the statement itself, an explanation as to why he thinks rape victims can't get pregnant, or his implication that rape victims shouldn't be able to get an abortion.

2 - the way to watch this video is with the Beta Closed Captioning - it's like a Bad Lip Reading crossover.

SolRoTry watching anime in japanese with it trying to translate, it's like art.

StanleyPainThis is also the guy who said that marital rape is bullshit because 1.) it never happens and 2.) women only claim marital rape in order to get something in divorce court.

dead_catBut what he really meant was 3.) Wives are the property of their husbands, just like in Yee Goode Olde Dayse, when Bible heroes stole their women from the pagan cities they burnt to the ground, and cannot claim rape anymore than a couch can claim assault for being intentionally sat on for hours at a time.

fedex"wives cannot claim rape anymore than a couch can claim assault for being intentionally sat on for hours at a time."

It's all a part of the apparent GOP mindset that women are chattle and that people (mostly women) should be punished for having sex.

Cherry Pop CultureGranted, it's not like a lot of people regard women as people in plenty of places.

John Holmes MotherfuckerSocial Conservatism is a way of getting poor people to vote for tax breaks for rich people. This nut job may be completely sincere, but the reason why he gets support from the GOP establishment has to do with rich people needing more money.

I don't think Republicans are essentially racist. If Herman Cain hadn't turned out to be a delusional pussyhound, they would have been happy to nominate him. They don't hate Obama any more than they hated Clinton.

What's racist about the Republican narrative on Obama is the outlandish fiction about him being a radical socialist. For white folks, the average black person is assumed to be to the left of your average white person. I don't think Republicans are alone in this. I believe that it's why the Democratic base chose Obama over Hillary Clinton.

ParacelsusDead, though I'm sure this isn't what happened here, you could almost read this as a stealth appeal to red-meat conservatives, who feel perenially disenfranchised because we live in 2012 and not 1840.

That is to say, any move that looks insane to you and I has to be evaluated carefully for its potential appeal to what the GOP calls its base.

Billy the PoetActually, there's some evidence that a woman is more likely to become pregnant if raped. Which really speaks ill of us as a species. As does the existence of RCongressman Akin.

Billy the PoetRadio Controlled Ongressman Akin, if you were wondering.

Grandmaster FunkNot sure what's meant by the "species" comment, or who exactly you're comparing us to? Chimps? I'm pretty sure most chimp sex is rape, if the concept is even meaningful when applied to non-human animals (hint, prolly not).

dairyqueenlatifahIraq and 9/11, therefore any woman who claims to become pregnant through rape is a lying whore.

Rudy"Sorry miss but if you weren't secretly enjoying yourself, you should have ordered your hoo-hah to spray some o' that spermicidal venom at the offending semen."

What the fuck kind of health class did these people have?

John Holmes MotherfuckerI may have missed it, I haven't seen anybody directly address what's most offensive about this, the idea that a "legitimate" rape victim won't get pregnant, so the woman who says she got pregnant through rape is a lying whore. THAT is the subtext of what this loathsome piece of shit is saying.

dead_catHe thinks introducing the concept of legitimate rape also introduces the concept of "illegitimate rape", and shears the number of abortions the US is required to use tax money for (those in response to a rape-induced pregnancy are exempt from the Hyde act.) by at least a half.

Considering that Republicans have been trying to redefine rape for a while now, and earlier this year tried to get STATUTORY RAPE, and "rape that uses drugs or other substances to incapacitate the victim" off the list of reasons for a Hyde act exemption, I guess we really shouldn't be so shocked by now.